The FBI suspects the ex-employee of CIA of large-scale theft
Moscow. May 16. INTERFAX.RU — the U.S. government suspects former CIA employee 29 year old Joshua Adam Schulte in the program in 2017, top-secret hacking software by WikiLeaks, reported NBC News, citing court documents.
According to experts, the diversion of these funds to WikiLeaks was “one of the most devastating in modern history, and included hacking tools that can be used against private companies.”
According to the New York Post, “the biggest theft in the history of the CIA” included “software that has been designed to take control of the iPhone and the transformation of smart TV in surveillance device”.
Lawyer John. Schulte Jacob Kaplan said in court that the FBI suspects the man in a massive leak 8 thousand CIA documents to WikiLeaks in March 2017.
“The FBI believed that Mr Schulte was involved in this leak. In their investigation they received a lot of search warrants Schulte phone, his computers and other items to establish the relationship between Mr. Schulte and leak to WikiLeaks,” said the lawyer.